The brain’s fear center moonlights as the save button for memories
What determines which moments are remembered? The amygdala, typically associated with regulating fear and aggression, may play a major role
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Europe’s Hera mission is ready to double down on asteroid science
Europe’s Hera spacecraft is just beginning its exploration of the binary asteroid Didymos in a mission that’s tantalizing scientists on two fronts.
When a battery dies, you replace it — how jumpstarting cells with fresh mitochondria could revolutionize medicine
A newborn baby’s heart is roughly the size of a walnut — which makes open-heart surgery challenging. Each year, about 10,000 babies in the United
Euclid space telescope unveils first major data release, including map of 900 million galaxies
A telescope tasked with creating the largest-ever 3D map of the universe is making good on its promise. On Thursday (Nov. 12), the European Space
‘Slave payments’ and ‘expensive and exclusive shoe’ discovered on 17th-century Danish ship that sank after deadly mutiny
Maritime archaeologists investigating a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden have discovered a fancy shoe and two metal rings used as currency in the
Stone Age children left fingerprints on ancient art projects
Natufian hunter-gatherers may have shown their kids how to sculpt clay, sets of preserved fingerprints suggest.
2,200-year-old gold bear figurine and surprising number of bones found in massive burial mound in Kazakhstan
The gold bear would have been worn on a headdress. (Image credit: Almaty City Administration) Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a unique gold bear figurine
The Grand Canyon is missing over a billion years of rocks. Now scientists know why.
More than a billion years of geological history is missing from the walls of the Grand Canyon, and now, scientists may know why. In the
‘The possibilities are truly breathtaking’: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will take better images and last longer than experts predicted
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is nearing its final destination more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, where it will soon
Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot on Spacewalk
From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie
How a Metabolic Spark Could Have Jump-Started Life
This explainer is part of Quanta Magazine’s Origins of Life Week. Check back throughout the week for more stories about one of science’s biggest unknowns.
Physicists propose new quantum device to measure how Earth twists space-time
Scientists have proposed a new tabletop device to detect the subtle way Earth’s daily spin on its axis twists the space-time around it — an
More people could count as obese under newly proposed definition — here’s what you need to know
Obesity is linked to a range of health problems — including heart disease, diabetes and early death — but it can be hard to know
Florida’s ‘dark magic’ mushrooms have a deadly combination of chemicals never seen before
A tiny brown mushroom found in Florida’s swamps is the first known fungus to contain both psilocybin, the chemical compound in psychedelic mushrooms; and amatoxin